(20 Jul 2022, 4:54 pm)F114TML wrote Have to say I'm a bit sad Blue won't be a thing; I quite like bird logo. Presumably the Violets will be going corporate if they're going to the 61? Might've been worth just swapping the lettering on them at least for now.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:06 pm)Retro Nero wrote Probably be on 24/26s & 9/5/24s I'd imagine

(20 Jul 2022, 4:18 pm)Unber43 wrote So then I wonder whats happening 8339-8342

(20 Jul 2022, 5:17 pm)Dan wrote They are only float/reserve at Deptford covering the ex-Prince Bishops repaints and driver route learning.

They are surplus from Sunday and will therefore leave Deptford.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:22 pm)Storx wrote Depending what happen to the ones on the 41/41A as they really don't need to be on there - there's enough Solos going spare for it, they could all go to Riverside and upgrade the 49/49A to see off the 09 plate Versa's. It's been allocated pretty much everything and anything lately.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:17 pm)Dan wrote They are only float/reserve at Deptford covering the ex-Prince Bishops repaints and driver route learning.

They are surplus from Sunday and will therefore leave Deptford.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:32 pm)Michael wrote What will go on 5,9,24 and 26 as the PVR is quite high due to the interworking.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:32 pm)Michael wrote What will go on 5,9,24 and 26 as the PVR is quite high due to the interworking.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:36 pm)Storx wrote There's more than enough Streetlites for it, 5411 - 5428 are all free.

(20 Jul 2022, 5:17 pm)Dan wrote They are only float/reserve at Deptford covering the ex-Prince Bishops repaints and driver route learning.

They are surplus from Sunday and will therefore leave Deptford.

(20 Jul 2022, 6:04 pm)Retro Nero wrote I wonder when will the new Prince Bishop livery be updated

(20 Jul 2022, 5:05 pm)Drifter60 wrote You’ve got remember the current 4 bph to Sunderland on the 61/62 is being halved into 2 bph. So dropping to a solo as well, would be a real decrease in overall capacity. Whilst the 61 may not be loading huge numbers, if you put them people onto a solo it may suddenly ‘look’ a lot busier.

(20 Jul 2022, 6:13 pm)N1cholas wrote Probably just replace the vinyl so it only shows sunderland - durham and replace any missing or worn vinyl panels to tidy them up, they really dont need a full re paint yet and now the pvr is significantly less it wouldn't take long to do them if they did

(20 Jul 2022, 5:22 pm)Storx wrote Depending what happen to the ones on the 41/41A as they really don't need to be on there - there's enough Solos going spare for it, they could all go to Riverside and upgrade the 49/49A to see off the 09 plate Versa's. It's been allocated pretty much everything and anything lately.

(18 Jul 2022, 10:29 pm)DeltaMan wrote A big issue for me is not showing folk how they could get to parts of Sunderland that GNE don't serve. GNE are the minority operator after all. I don't see why they couldn't have shown Stagecoach routes for the areas they don't serve with an advert for the Smartzone pass.

Midland Classic do this in Burton. Ironically, so do Reading Buses....

(22 Jul 2022, 10:15 am)Adrian wrote It'd be nice. I recall there was a smartzone map at one point which did show the different services, but they seem to have been replaced with boundary maps.

(22 Jul 2022, 10:18 am)F114TML wrote It's still available on the Stagecoach website... and is comically out of date
https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/ZoneMaps/North%20East/NE_SunderlandSmartZoneMap2015DEC.pdf

(22 Jul 2022, 12:36 pm)wibblejunior wrote Since this appears to be after the 22 and 24 were swapped around and before the X36 was withdrawn, I'm assuming this is from 2015/6?